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Principles That Promote Learning

Graphics working with words
- Purposefully selected graphics can better engage the mind than words alone and help the learner to make meaning of the text
Graphics to Teach Content Types
- There are five content types that benefit from graphic support
  - Facts—shows specific information
  - Concepts—shows categorical relationships
  - Process—shows how something works
  - Procedure—shows the steps
  - Principle—shows cause-and-effect relationships
Graphics as Topic Organizers
- Show relationship among topics in a lesson; illustrations help learner to compare or contrast the topic in the different circumstances
Graphics to Show Relationships
- Can show growth over time or other relationships among concepts being taught
Graphics as Lesson Interfaces
- Provide a virtual training opportunity for the learner in a guided discovery setting